Introduction

1
What Is a Nice Racist?

2
Why It’s OK to Generalize About White People

3
There Is No Choir

4
What’s Wrong with Niceness?

5
The Moves of White Progressives

6
Spiritual, Not Religious

7
Let’s Talk About Shame

8
What About My Trauma?

9
We Aren’t Actually That Nice

10
How White People Who Experience Other Oppressions Can Still Be Racist, or “But I’m a Minority Myself!”

11
How Do You Make a White Progressive a Better Racist?

12
Niceness Is Not Courageous: How to Align Your Professed Values with Your Actual Practice

Study Guide
Acknowledgments
Notes

Table of Contents

Introduction

1
What Is a Nice Racist?

2
Why It’s OK to Generalize About White People

3
There Is No Choir

4
What’s Wrong with Niceness?

5
The Moves of White Progressives

6
Spiritual, Not Religious

7
Let’s Talk About Shame

8
What About My Trauma?

9
We Aren’t Actually That Nice

10
How White People Who Experience Other Oppressions Can Still Be Racist, or “But I’m a Minority Myself!”

11
How Do You Make a White Progressive a Better Racist?

12
Niceness Is Not Courageous: How to Align Your Professed Values with Your Actual Practice

Study Guide
Acknowledgments
Notes

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